All them crooks

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The Nation reports that the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found that The Eel, Tharit Pengdit, is “unusually rich.” NACC members “voted unanimously” in finding that Tarit had “unlawfully” amassed assets worth Bt346.65 million.

As anyone who has read PPT for several years will know, we have little sympathy for Tharit, the former Department of Special Investigation chief. We call him The Eel to recognize his demonstrated capacity to slither from supporting a murderous government – the Abhisit Vejjajiva regime – and throwing that government’s political opponents in jail to become an enforcer for the opponents against his former bosses when he slithered across to the Yingluck Shinawatra administration.

The NACC decided “to order the Civil Court to seize Bt90.26 million worth of [his] assets…” before charging him.

The NACC says that Tharit “allegedly transferred and hid most of the Bt346.65 million so the NACC was only able to freeze Bt90.26 million of assets owned by Tarit and his wife.” The NACC considered this amount to be “more wealth than a government official could earn lawfully.”

So why has Tharit been grabbed? It is because he is considered a traitor to the ruling elite. It seems that when one is corrupt but serving the royalist elite, that’s all fine and dandy. When one goes to the other side, that will be punished. And, the point is that the punishment is then a warning to the other corrupt bastards that they need to know who’s buttering their bread and cooking their rice.